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This Sunday, the Kings visited the La Chopera sports center, in the Madrid municipality of Villamanta, where residents evacuated from Villa del Prado, Aldea del Fresno and other towns in the southwest of the Community of Madrid affected by the forest fire remain housed. “Coordination is exemplary. Together we can face any risk,” he said. The head of the First Emergency Intervention Battalion of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), Lieutenant Colonel Alfonso Arribas, has assured that all fronts of the fire that affects the Community of Madrid and Ávila are contained, although several active heads remain. The president of Castilla…
The large forest fires that are devastating the province of Ávila and the Community of Madrid have already forced the evacuation or confinement of 100,000 people and affect 45,000 hectares. The two fires are still active and advancing uncontrolled. For four days, strong gusts of wind have made extinction difficult and the efforts of the firefighters have led to exhausting days of work. The efforts of the operation this Sunday will be focused again on protecting populations, evacuating preventively and preventing the flames from both fronts from merging. Even so, the Military Emergency Unit (UME) already treats them as a…
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The forest fires that already affect 45,000 hectares and have forced the evacuation or confinement of more than 88,500 people in the province of Ávila and the Community of Madrid continue this Saturday active and uncontrolled. During the night, they have made “very little progress and their intensity has decreased,” but the increase in wind that has occurred throughout the day is worrying. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has warned that the situation remains complex: “We do not know what the evolution of the wind will be, despite the fact that temperatures have dropped,” he noted from the…
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A total of seven aerial means and numerous ground means are working to try to extinguish a fire declared this Saturday in an area of vegetation in La Vall d’Uixò (Castellón), but which is already affecting a forest area. As reported by the Castellón Provincial Firefighters Consortium, the current evolution of the fire is negative.Continue reading
The fire that is ravaging the southwest corner of the Community of Madrid and has already burned more than 6,000 hectares remains active and uncontrolled this Saturday. The region’s emergency service has reported that “the fire is still active” and that its evolution “will be determined by the wind regime that occurs in the coming hours.” The firefighters have worked “intensely” throughout the night, taking advantage of three factors that, according to the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, opened an “opportunity” to try to control the flames: low temperatures, less wind and increased humidity, which was very low throughout…
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